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Sophmore in college.

Double major Economics and Philosophy.

Possibly a minor in Film Studies.

Looking for a summer job/internship in Houston or Atlanta.

 

Recent Graduate

BBA in Accountancy...

looking for a full time position or internship

Houston, Sf, Nyc

 

Consider getting a graduate degree in a field where they won't ship your job to India. I have a degree in Electrical Engineering, mostly write software, and here in Silicon Valley the job market is probably worse. Since tech companies of America want to both :ship jobs abroad and get more H1-B and L-1 immigration permits to import foreigners at lower pay, this is not really a field with potential for growth until the pay in the US matches third world nations' or vice versa.

 

I feel for ya, Darkhorse. I graduated May of 2002 with a BS in computer science, looked hard for a year or so...had to move back in with the parents, and then found a job in Houston that has little to nothing to do with my degree, but that could sustain me financially. I still look on and off, because if I could find something in Houston that is more to my field, I would take it...but everytime I look and see the kinds of things employers are looking for (all kinds of knowledge of software packages my college never mentioned and stuff I don't have time to learn on my own now) I get really discouraged. I may never get a job in my field. I hope for better for you.

I should mention, I never really broadened my search beyond Dallas or Houston because I really want to stay close to home. I have people very close to me here.

 

I'm working my company's booth at the UT Career fair next month. Stop by and mention the Rockets.

 

and what company is that.....

 

something something pooper.

 

oops, double post

I guess I can say that I graduated (magna c*m laude) with a degree in Computer Engineering. I wasn't all that fond of what I was doing on my internship though, so I have cooled a little on the thought of going into engineering.

 

senior in chemical engineering at UT with a 4.0. but apparently all anyone cares about is work experience. of course i shouldn't complain that much. i didn't sing up for very many interviews (like 8) and only got 2. as of early december, i believe 8 ChE's had a job, and a lot of ChE's graduated in the fall too so that's a lot of people out of work. i think only two people graduating this spring had a job and getting a job in the spring is harder as fewer companies come around.

so i most likely will be going to graduate school barring a miracle in finding a job this semester. it's just as well, i don't feel ready to hold down a real job and grad school is another two years of not only getting football tickets, but at student prices. now lets just hope the fact i went to UT undergrad doesn't hurt my chances for UT grad school too much.

baqui, what company? i assume it's EE related but i might stop by just so i can say i actually know someone from this board finally.

 

francis4prez: email me

Right now, we're mainly looking for interns, although you never know when something might open up.

 

Junior EE at UT
3.0 GPA and

DarkHorse I feel your pain. It's my last year to get some work experience before I graduate and I'm defintely a little concerned.

If I can't get a job before I graduate, I'm going to law school for patent law. Copyright is gonna be a big issue in China in a couple of years and I think a bilingual (tri if you count Shanghai dialect as a language) lawyer with a technical background has a decent chance of getting a job, here's to wishful thinking

 

I just graduated on dec 03... last month.... BS ..... degree
double major in Physics and Applied math

I don't have much experience except the Undergraduate Student Research Program for one semester in NASA langley.... did some study on a computer code there. I also washed dishes in my uncle's restaurant some years ago when I was in high school.

would like to find something to do in the
Seattle, SF, Maryland, or Hampton raods ... area

 

I graduated from UT with a BS in Electrical Engineering(Computer Tech) in Dec '02. I had a 3.5 GPA but with little work experience. After about 5 months of unsuccessful job searching, I moved back with my folks. Now, I'm planning on changing careers into the medical field, so I'm taking classes at a local community college.

I'm still open to getting a job in my field, although I'm a bit concerned about its long term security. I'm thinking career in medicine would be more secure. Anyways, I'd be looking for any engineering(electrical/computer) positions in Texas.

 

You know. I feel kind of cheated on the whole college thing.

I had a degree before, in Accounting, but by the time I was finished with the thing, I knew I didn't want to be an accountant, so I've never really worked in the field. But I didn't consider that to be any great loss.

Over the years, I've done other things, including doing some deals that have set me up with a decent living without having to work a regular job for now, which is nice.

But I've always wanted to do something with my life and improve my station. My first choice has always been becomming a filmmaker, but that seems like such a pipe dream that it seemed prudent to find something else I liked and use that as my back-up plan.

So I finally decided what I wanted to use as my back-up - advertising. So, I go back to school to get me one of them advertising degrees. Throughout my college experience in the advertising program, my professors just RAVE about me. Uncommonly talented. Incredible writer. And so on and so forth. I can't tell you how many times I heard something akin to the phrase, "You should have no problems getting a copywriting position upon graduation". So, I'm thinking, cool. I've got the back-up thing. Heck, I'd kind of even like to maybe go to work for a little while after graduation. Just to see what it's like, etc.

So I go off and graduate, and suddenly the rosy job outlook my professors were going on and on about has disappeared. They still say I'm uncommonly talented and all that bullcrap, but now they talk about how I need to put together a portfolio (in color because, apparently, potential employers can't tell if you can write if your ads are in black & white) with excellent, professional art direction (meaning I have to find me an art director to work with on this portfolio since my art direction skills are mediocre at best). And plus, I need to go network and even then, I'd probably only be able to land a job writing catalog descriptions at Radio Shack rather than actual ads. But maybe after two or three years of that, I could qualify for an entry-level position at an ad agency (though probably not since I'm already in my 30s).

And if the portfolio is the only thing that can get me hired, then why the hell did I go back to school? I didn't get anything at school that would've made for a better portfolio. Heck, I could've spent the time I spent at school putting together a portfolio and actually had better job propects now than I do with the degree.

So, come to find out that it ain't worth it to even try to be in advertising. The amount of work it would take to get a crappy entry-level position with crappy pay would actually be harder than it has been so far to raise a not-insignificant amount of investment to make a "real" movie this spring/summer and significantly harder than it has been to get people in Hollywood to be open to my work.

So I feel like I wasted a year and a half of my life going back to school to get a degree in a field in which I could never get hired.

Yes. I'm very, very bitter.

 

paige - Is your email on the BBS the right one?

 

I think so.

If not, my email is the very easy to remember ryan@paige.net

 

Whoa, that scares me a bit. I'm sure the fact that you graduated in the off year hurts, but man that really sucks. As a fellow EE from UT, I can't feel bad for you, especially since I know what you had to go through for that degree. Should've just been a business major and had fun

But in all seriousness, the ECE says it has a 95% accomodation rate, how accurate is that or are you just one of the unlucky ones?

 

err. Can't help but feel bad for you.

 

...and now, the $64,000 question...What's the difference between applied math and good ole' regular math?